Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

South Park Commons is a community of technologists ideating and validating what to build next. We believe this shouldn’t be done alone. Our members range from exited founders and highly-cited researchers to new graduates and first-time entrepreneurs. What unites us is ambition, ability, and a mutual commitment to helping each other navigate -1 to 0.

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OUR Members

A Modern Day Xerox PARC


We focus on highly technical builders in the -1 to 0. Over the last decade, we have had 1,000 members join us to start companies, pursue research, and work on other ambitious projects.

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Nic
Former SPC staff & professional sailor. A background in building ops, sales, & marketing stacks at very early stage companies.
Sudeep
Co-founder / CEO @ Autonomi AI | Ex-ML Engineering Lead @ToyotaResearch | CS PhD @MIT | #girldad
Rahul
Hi everyone! I'm working on Doppel -- we're building trust & safety software to help detect NFT counterfeits. I'm really excited about the NFT space and all of the challenging problems that need to be solved to help it grow.
Vinay
Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.
Gabor
3x startup founder with exits to Google and Twitter. Formerly: Director for consumer product incubator at Google, PM, and SWE. Things I like: Vercel, Supabase, PyTorch, Next.js (with reservations), and contributing to AI cookbooks on Github.
Jonathan
Jonathan Mortensen (JMo) is a data scientist and software engineer. After graduating with a PhD in biomedical data science in 2016 from Stanford, Jonathan founded and sold two startups: Gyroscope to BlueVoyant and bit.io to Databricks. Now, JMo is exploring on the intersection of AI and databases.
Nick
Co-founder at ROSNIK AI, working on improving the experience of human in the loop AI systems. Previously, built software to scale Modern Health and Optimizely. Happy to chat about all things startups, software engineering, distributed systems, mental health, and food.
Purvanshi
Create engaging videos in one click (Lica) | Applied Scientist
Abiel
Co-founder and CTO of Comun, building banking infrastructure to expand financial access for immigrant communities. Previously an early engineer at Brex. Studied computer science at Stanford and is passionate about mission-driven systems that scale.
Varun
I'm part of the FF4 -- previously worked at Transferwise and Instacart. Exploring new ideas and always excited to meet new people so please reach out!

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Our members have started 250+ companies, including several unicorns. Others have become core contributors to leading research organizations, open-source software projects, and academic institutions.

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